@inproceedings{b3c1d52cfd68418b813ab3efa699d251,
title = "Systematic Study of Two-Pion Production in NN Collisions - from Single-Baryon to Di-Baryon Excitations",
abstract = "The two-pion production in nucleon-nucleon collisions has been studied by exclusive and kinematically complete experiments from threshold up to T(p) = 1.36 GeV at CELSIUS-WASA. At near-threshold energies the total and differential distributions for the pi(+)pi(-) and pi(0)pi(0) channels are dominated by Roper excitation and its decay into N sigma and Delta pi channels. At beam energies T(p) > 1.1 GeV the Delta Delta excitation governs the two-pion production process. In the pi(+)pi(+) channel evidence is found for the excitation of a higher-lying I=3/2 resonance, favorably the Delta(1600). The isovector fusion processes leading to the deuteron and to quasi-stable (2)He, respectively, exhibit no or only a modest ABC-effect, i.e. low-mass enhancement in the pi pi-invariant mass spectrum, and can be described by conventional t-channel Delta Delta excitation. On the other hand, the isoscalar fusion process to the deuteron exhibits a dramatic ABC-effect correlated with a narrow resonance-like energy dependence in the total cross section with a width of only 50 MeV and situated at a mass 90 MeV below the Delta Delta mass.",
keywords = "Roper excitation, Delta Delta excitation, Delta(1600), ABC effect and resonance, PROTON-PROTON COLLISIONS, DOUBLE-PION PRODUCTION, ROPER RESONANCE, CROSS-SECTIONS, GEV-C, NUCLEON COLLISIONS, MESON PRODUCTION, ABC ENHANCEMENT, NEAR-THRESHOLD, S-WAVE",
author = "{CELSIUS-WASA Collaboration} and T. Skorodko and M. Bashkanov and H. Clement and E. Doroshkevich and O. Khakimova and F. Kren and A. Pricking and Wagner, {G. J.}",
year = "2010",
month = aug,
day = "29",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-0-7354-0807-4",
series = "AIP Conference Proceedings",
publisher = "AMER INST PHYSICS",
pages = "520--524",
editor = "Crede and P Eugenio and A Ostrovidov",
booktitle = "HADRON 2009",
note = "13th International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy ; Conference date: 29-11-2009 Through 04-12-2009",
}